Our Orchard In Its Early Days
I promised a long time ago that I’d post a picture of the orchard we planted. Here it is, under a rainbow:
It’s hard to see all of the trees, because they are still pretty small. Check back in a few years and it should be a more impressive sight! In all, we have 14 fruit trees in our orchard. We’re expecting a bit of trial and error with this process. We’re only going to let about half the trees fruit next year, leaving the other half to focus on growing strong roots. The following year we’ll switch it up, and let the ones that already fruited work on their roots. Getting fruit will depend on when we get our last frost too, so I expect that some years will be better than others. But we’re really excited about having fruit trees – it’s something we’ve wanted to do for a long time.
I also wanted to share a picture of the pepper plants we’re growing on our patio in a container my husband built:
And, better late than never… check out the Festival of Frugality that Green Panda Treehouse hosted last week. I had an article in the FOF, and enjoyed many of the other articles too.
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I JUST posted pictures of our garden. How funny is that? I’ll trade you some greens for some fruit.
What an awesome orchard! I love the shot of it with the rainbow, it’s already getting some good luck
This summer we stayed at a Almond Orchard and I was amazed to learn that it can take five years after planting to the first good crop! It made me appreciate those delicious nuts more and the patience of the farmer that cares for them. It also helped to justify the high price the delicacy bears!
I love your little orchard!
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This reminded me of the trees my parents planted in our backyard. I was one at the time and they decided to take my pic next to the trees each year. Before long the tiny saplings that were dwarfed by me became large trees and I was the little one. Kind of a neat way to measure both growers.
The rainbow is a nice touch of good things to come.
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